The self-sacrifice involved in mutual sharing and co-operative action is impossible without hope. When today is all there is, we grab and hold on. We are afloat in an ocean of nothingness and we hang on to any miserable piece of wreckage as if it were the tree of life… Those without hope are dividedContinue reading “Hope vs. Greed, the Future vs. Today, Obama vs. McCain”
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Quote of the Year (religious)
"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion [as Dostoyevsky said]….according to Renan, "The day after that on which the worldContinue reading “Quote of the Year (religious)”
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